There is nothing more international than the formation of national identities. From barbarian epics to ethnographic museums, from national languages to emblematic landscapes or typical costumes, this book retraces the cultural fabrication of the European nations, documenting how national identities are not facts of nature but constructions.
The list of basic elements of a national identity is well known: ancestral founders, a history, heroes, a language, monuments, landscapes, and folklore. Compiling this list was the great enterprise carried out throughout Europe during the last two centuries. Patriotic militancy and the transnational exchanges of ideas and know-how created identities that are very specific, but similar precisely in their difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anne-Marie Thiesse<\/strong>, Senior Researcher at the CNRS in Paris, is a literary studies researcher and historian specializing in the cultural history of contemporary Europe. She is interested in the relationship between literature and politics in the 18th\u201321st centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Table of contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreword<\/strong> Part 1 The Identification of the Ancestors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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1 The Europe of Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 An Aesthetic Revolution<\/strong>
\u20031\u2003 The Caledonian Iliad
\u20032\u2003 The Offensive against the One Single Culture
\u20033\u2003 The Songs of the Nations
\u20034\u2003 The Blossoming of the Bards
\u20035\u2003 The Oldest Daughter of the Celts
\u20036\u2003 The Nation to the Rescue of the Fatherland
\u20037\u2003 The Cosmopolitanism of the National
3 One Nation, One Language<\/strong>
\u20031\u2003 The Invention of the National Languages
\u20032\u2003 Language of the Right, Language of the Left
\u20033\u2003 Language of the Book, Language of the People
4 International Sponsorship of a National Culture<\/strong>
\u20031\u2003 A Nation for the South Slavs
\u20032\u2003 The Descendants of Homer
\u20033\u2003 The Sons and Daughters of the Dacians
\u20034\u2003 From the Tradition to the National Liberation
5 One State, Several Nations<\/strong>
\u20031\u2003 The National Awakening in the Empire
\u20032\u2003 Fraternity of the Peoples and National Minorities
6 Foundational Epics<\/strong>
\u20031\u2003 The Land of Heroes
\u20032\u2003 The Sons and Daughters of Kalev
\u20033\u2003 The Armorican Epic
7 National Histories<\/strong>
\u20031\u2003 The National Novel
\u20032\u2003 National Stages
\u20033\u2003 Historical Monuments
\u20034\u2003 The War of the Goths
\u20035\u2003 The Disseminators of the Patrimony<\/p>\n\n\n\n